Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated analyzing apparatus
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Application No.: US14762928Application Date: 2013-12-20
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Publication No.: US09989550B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Takashi Nakasawa , Yoshihiro Suzuki , Yoichi Aruga
- Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2013-014710 20130129
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/084293 WO 20131220
- International Announcement: WO2014/119172 WO 20140807
- Main IPC: G01N35/10
- IPC: G01N35/10 ; G01N35/00

Abstract:
In an automated analyzing apparatus, problems arise when a reagent container is carried in during analysis, since it is necessary to stop all accesses of mechanisms etc. to a location of the apparatus where the reagent container is placed and, in a situation in which measurements have been already started, it is impossible to carry the reagent container after waiting about several minutes. To address the problems, when a remaining amount of a reagent corresponding to a predetermined item becomes equal to or less than a first threshold value, a pause cycle of reagent suction is generated in which the reagent dispensing mechanism does not suction the reagent from inside of a reagent container of a reagent disc at regular intervals, and a reagent container containing the same kind of reagent in the reagent disc by the reagent container carrying mechanism is automatically carried in the pause cycle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150369833A1 AUTOMATED ANALYZING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-12-24
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